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Why is maintaining 80% battery power the best choice for EVs? | EV Basics

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If your EV has 300 miles of range when fully juiced up, it can go about 240 miles with an 80% state of charge. If the 0-to-80% recharge time is 40 minutes, you can hit the road in less than half an hour, which is not too bad. It’s a good idea that can help extend the battery life of your EV.

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An e-scooter, a PHEV and an angry man

EV Central

And there are zero emissions if you recharge a scooter’s batteries from a sustainable source. Or, more likely, if your ‘last mile’ commutes are short, you may need only recharge once a week. It’s actually a massive bloody shame. E-scooters should be a force for good.

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What the Nissan Leaf Has Taught Us About Natural Disaster Recovery

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The idea of using electric vehicles to provide power during emergencies was generated during the 2011 tsunami. The Leaf models were used as portable power stations , with enough juice to power the average Japanese home for four days, power 6,200 smartphones, or run 100 elevator round trips in a 48-story building. .

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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Europcar provided a Shell Recharge card: you create an account, link your payment method and bingo! You need to download the Shell Recharge app, but as I have an Australian phone with an Australian Apple ID, it says it’s not available in my region. Access to 275,000 European charging stations. It’s 80km to our first stop.

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Londoners gogoing electric

Green Cars News

They can avoid paying the congestion charge, parking fees and also fuel costs if they recharge for free at one of the City’s juice points, and the rental quickly starts to make economic sense. GoGo’s customers’ key concern is that there are too few public recharging points, a situation which the Mayor of London has plans to address.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: M&N/Alamy Some operators of early direct-current power plants at the turn of the 20th century solved the problem of uneven power output from their generators by employing large banks of rechargeable lead-acid batteries, which served as a kind of buffer to balance the flow of electrons.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. The "normal plug" idea doesnt neccessarily work dude. let me plug this car in right here, oh wait!